A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society. Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography. Geographers do not study only...
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David Harvey
David Harvey (born 31 October 1935, Gillingham, Kent, England) is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). A leading social theorist of international standing, he received his PhD...
Date of birth:
- Oct 31, 1935 (age 76 years)
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He is best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted...
Date of birth:
- Jan 8, 1823
Date of death:
- Nov 7, 1913 (age 90 years)
Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy ( /ˈtɒləmi/; Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, Klaudios Ptolemaios; Latin: Claudius Ptolemaeus; c. AD 90 – c. AD 168), was a Greek-Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and...
Date of birth:
- 90 C.E.
Date of death:
- 168 C.E. (age 78 years)
Erich von Drygalski
Erich Dagobert von Drygalski (February 9, 1865 – January 10, 1949) was a German geographer, geophysicist and polar scientist, born in Königsberg, Province of Prussia.
Between 1882 and 1887, Drygalski studied mathematics and natural science at the...
Date of birth:
- Feb 9, 1865
Date of death:
- Jan 10, 1949 (age 83 years)
Peter Kropotkin
Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (Russian: Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин; 9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, revolutionary, economist, activist, geographer, writer, and one of...
Date of birth:
- Dec 9, 1842
Date of death:
- Feb 8, 1921 (age 78 years)
Mikhail Lomonosov
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Ломоно́сов; November 19 [O.S. November 8] 1711 – April 15 [O.S. April 4] 1765) was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and...
Date of birth:
- Nov 19, 1711
Date of death:
- Apr 15, 1765 (age 53 years)
William Morris Davis
William Morris Davis (February 12, 1850 - February 5, 1934) was an American geographer, geologist, geomorphologist, and meteorologist, often called the "father of American geography".
He was born into a Quaker family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,...
Date of birth:
- Feb 12, 1850
Date of death:
- Feb 5, 1934 (age 84 years)
Heinrich Harrer
Heinrich Harrer (German pronunciation: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈhaʁɐ]; 6 July 1912 – 7 January 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author. He is best known for being on the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North...
Date of birth:
- Jul 6, 1912
Date of death:
- Jan 7, 2006 (age 93 years)
Muhammad al-Idrisi
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani al-Sabti or simply Al Idrisi (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد الإدريسي; Latin: Dreses) (1099–1165 or 1166) was a Moroccan Muslim geographer, cartographer, Egyptologist and traveller who lived in...
Date of birth:
- 1100
Date of death:
- 1160 (age 60 years)
Joseph Nicollet
Joseph Nicolas Nicollet (July 24, 1786 – September 11, 1843), also known as Jean-Nicolas Nicollet, was a French geographer, astronomer, and mathematician known for mapping the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s. Nicollet led three...
Date of birth:
- Jul 24, 1786
Date of death:
- Sep 11, 1843 (age 57 years)
Carl Ritter
Carl Ritter (August 7, 1779 – September 28, 1859) was a German geographer. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, he is considered one of the founders of modern geography. From 1825 until his death, he occupied the first chair in geography at the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 7, 1779
Date of death:
- Sep 28, 1859 (age 80 years)
Sven Hedin
Sven Anders Hedin KNO1kl RVO (19 February 1865 – 26 November 1952) was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, and travel writer, as well as an illustrator of his own works. During four expeditions to Central Asia he discovered...
Date of birth:
- Feb 19, 1865
Date of death:
- Nov 26, 1952 (age 87 years)
Xu Xiake
Xu Xiake (Chinese: 徐霞客; pinyin: Xú Xiákè; Wade–Giles: Hsü Hsiak'o, January 5, 1587 – March 8, 1641), born Xu Hongzu (徐弘祖), courtesy name Zhenzhi (振之), was a Chinese travel writer and geographer of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) known best for his...
Date of birth:
- Jan 5, 1587
Date of death:
- Mar 8, 1641 (age 54 years)
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, earlier transliterated as Algoritmi or Algaurizin, (c. 780, Khwārizm – c. 850) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer and geographer, a scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. The word al-Khwarizmi...
Date of birth:
- 780 C.E.
Date of death:
- 850 C.E. (age 70 years)
Michael Watts
Michael J. Watts is "Class of 1963" Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leading critical intellectual figure of the academic left.
Raised between Bath and Bristol in the UK, Watts received...
Date of birth:
- 1951 (age 61 years)
Fyodor Petrovich Litke
Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke (Russian: Граф Фёдор Петро́вич Ли́тке), born Friedrich Benjamin Lütke, (28 September [O.S. 17 September] 1797 – 28 August [O.S. 17 August] 1882) was a Russian navigator, geographer, and Arctic explorer. He became a...
Date of birth:
- Sep 29, 1797
Date of death:
- Aug 20, 1882 (age 84 years)
Ferdinand von Mueller
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, KCMG (German: Müller) (30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist.
Mueller was born at Rostock, Germany. After the early death of his...
Date of birth:
- Jun 30, 1825
Date of death:
- Oct 10, 1896 (age 71 years)
David Harris
David Russell Harris (born 14 December 1930) is a British geographer, anthropologist, archaeologist and academic, well known for his detailed work on the origins of agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals. He is a former director of...
Date of birth:
- Dec 14, 1930 (age 81 years)
Ferdinand von Richthofen
Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen (5 May 1833 – 6 October 1905) was a German traveller, geographer, and scientist.
He was born in Carlsruhe, Prussian Silesia, and was educated in Breslau and Berlin. He traveled or studied in the Alps of Tyrol and...
Date of birth:
- May 5, 1833
Date of death:
- Oct 6, 1905 (age 72 years)
Michael Frank Goodchild
Michael Frank Goodchild (born February 24, 1944) is a British-American geographer. He is currently a professor of geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. After nineteen years at the University of Western Ontario, including three...
Date of birth:
- Feb 24, 1944 (age 68 years)
Edward William Brayley
Edward William Brayley FRS (1801 – February 1, 1870) was an English geographer, librarian, and science author.
Brayley was born in London, the son of Edward Wedlake Brayley, a notable antiquary and his wife Anne (c. 1771-1850). His early schooling,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 28, 1801
Date of death:
- Feb 1, 1870 (age 68 years)
Francisco Moreno
Francisco Pascasio Moreno (May 31, 1852–November 22, 1919) was a prominent explorer and academic in Argentina, where he is usually referred to as Perito Moreno (perito means "specialist, expert"). Perito Moreno has been credited as one of the most...
Date of birth:
- May 31, 1852
Date of death:
- Nov 22, 1919 (age 67 years)
Louis Feuillée
Louis Éconches Feuillée (sometimes spelled Feuillet) (1660, Mane, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence - April 18, 1732) was a French member of the Order of the Minims, explorer, astronomer, geographer, and botanist.
Feuillée was educated at the Minim convent of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 18, 1660
Date of death:
- Apr 18, 1732 (age 72 years)
Matej Bel
Matthias Bel or Matthias Bél (German: Matthias Bel; Hungarian: Bél Mátyás; Latin: Matthias Belius; Slovak: Matej Bel; March 22, 1684 – August 29, 1749) was a Lutheran pastor and polymath from the Kingdom of Hungary. He is also known as the Great...
Date of birth:
- Mar 22, 1684
Date of death:
- Aug 29, 1749 (age 65 years)
Henry Gannett
Henry Gannett, M.E.; LL.D. (August 24, 1846 - November 5, 1914) was an American geographer who is described as the "Father of the Quadrangle" which is the basis for topographical maps in the United States.
He was born in Bath, Maine, graduated with...
Date of birth:
- Aug 24, 1846
Date of death:
- Nov 5, 1914 (age 68 years)
Arnaldo Faustini
Arnaldo Faustini (1872-1944) was an Italian polar geographer, writer, and cartographer. He is considered by some to be the first Italian polar specialist. Born in Rome, he received his doctorate at the University of Rome at the age of 21. Faustini...
Date of birth:
- 1872
Date of death:
- 1944 (age 72 years)
Marinus of Tyre
Marinus of Tyre, (c. 70 – 130 A.D., Greek: Μαρίνος ο Τύριος, also rendered as Marinos of Tyre) was a Phoenician geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography.
Originally from the Roman province of Syria, Marinus is...
Date of birth:
- 70 C.E.
Date of death:
- 130 C.E. (age 60 years)
Hans Meyer
Hans Heinrich Josef Meyer (March 22, 1858 – July 5, 1929) was a German geographer from Hildburghausen, who was the son of publisher Herrmann Julius Meyer (1826-1909). Hans Meyer is credited with being the first European to reach the summit of Mount...
Date of birth:
- Mar 22, 1858
Date of death:
- Jul 5, 1929 (age 71 years)
Aziz Ab'Saber
Aziz Nacib Ab'Sáber (Portuguese pronunciation: [aˈziz naˈsib abˈsabeɾ]; October 24, 1924 – March 16, 2012) was an environmentalist and one of Brazil´s most respected scientists, honored with the highest awards of Brazilian science in geography,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 24, 1924
Date of death:
- Mar 16, 2012 (age 87 years)
Robert Kates
Robert W. Kates (born January 31, 1929) is an American geographer and independent scholar in Trenton, Maine, and University Professor (Emeritus) at Brown University.
Kates was born in Brooklyn, New York. Unusual for an academic, he never completed...
Date of birth:
- Jan 31, 1929 (age 83 years)
Laurence Dudley Stamp
Sir (Laurence) Dudley Stamp, CBE, DSc, D. Litt, LLD, Ekon D, DSc Nat ((1898-03-09)9 March 1898 – 8 August 1966(1966-08-08)), was professor of geography at Rangoon and London, and one of the internationally best known British geographers of the 20th...
Date of birth:
- Mar 9, 1898
Date of death:
- Aug 8, 1966 (age 68 years)
Sidney William Wooldridge
Professor Sidney William Wooldridge CBE, FRS, FGS (1900–1963), geologist, geomorphologist and geographer, was a pioneer in the study of the geomorphology of south-east England and the first professor of geography at King's College London. He...
Date of birth:
- Nov 16, 1900
Date of death:
- 1963 (age 62 years)
David Leslie Linton
Professor David Leslie Linton (1906–1971), British geographer and geomorphologist, was professor of geography at Sheffield and Birmingham, best remembered for his work on the landscape development of south-east England with S.W.Wooldridge, and on...
Date of birth:
- Jul 12, 1906
Date of death:
- 1971 (age 64 years)
Alice Coleman
Alice Mary Coleman (born 1923) is emeritus professor of geography at King's College London. She is noted for directing the 1960s Second Land Use Survey of Britain and for analyses of land use planning and urban design taken up by the political right...
Date of birth:
- Jun 8, 1923 (age 89 years)
Carlos Minc
Carlos Minc (born July 12, 1951 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian geographer, professor, environmentalist, politician and Minister of Environment in Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's second term as president of Brazil.
Minc was born on July 12,...
Date of birth:
- Jul 12, 1951 (age 60 years)
Lolo Soetoro
Lolo Soetoro, also known as Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo or Mangundikardjo, (EYD: Lolo Sutoro) (pronounced [ˈlɒlɒ suːˈtɒrɒː]; January 2, 1935− March 2, 1987) was the Indonesian stepfather of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States of...
Date of birth:
- Jan 2, 1935
Date of death:
- 1987 (age 52 years)
Vardan Areveltsi
Vardan Areveltsi (Armenian: Վարդան Արևելցի; Vardan the Easterner, circa 1198 – 1271 AD) was a thirteenth century Armenian historian, geographer, philosopher and translator. In addition to establishing numerous schools and monasteries, he also left...
Date of birth:
- 1198
Date of death:
- 1271 (age 73 years)
Gottfried Heinsius
Gottfried Heinsius (April, 1709 – May 21, 1769) was a German mathematician, geographer and astronomer.
He was born near Naumburg and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1733 from the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on De viribus motricibus. Later he...
Date of birth:
- Apr 27, 1709
Date of death:
- May 21, 1769 (age 60 years)
Barry Bishop
Barry Chapman Bishop (January 13, 1932–September 24, 1994) was an American mountaineer, scientist, photographer and scholar. With teammates Jim Whittaker, Lute Jerstad, Willi Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein, he was a member of the first American team to...
Date of birth:
- Jan 13, 1932
Date of death:
- Sep 24, 1994 (age 62 years)
Voin Rimsky-Korsakov
Voin Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: Воин Андреевич Римский-Корсаков, 1822–1871) was a Russian navigator, hydrographer and geographer. He was an elder brother of composer and conductor Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Rimsky-Korsakov was born in 1822...
Date of birth:
- 1822
Date of death:
- 1871 (age 49 years)
John Brian Harley
(John) Brian Harley ((1932-07-24)24 July 1932 – 20 December 1991(1991-12-20)) was a geographer, cartographer, and map historian at the universities of Birmingham, Liverpool, Exeter and Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the founding co-editor of The History...
Date of birth:
- Jul 24, 1932
Date of death:
- 1991 (age 58 years)
Edwin James
Edwin James (27 August 1797 – 28 October 1861) was a 19th-century American botanist, geographer and geologist who explored the American West. James completed the first recorded ascent of Pikes Peak.
Born in Weybridge, Vermont, to Daniel and Mary ...
Date of birth:
- Aug 27, 1797
Date of death:
- Oct 28, 1861 (age 64 years)
Charles Rabot
Charles Rabot (June 26, 1856 in Nevers−1 February 1944) was a French geographer, glaciologist, traveler, journalist, lecturer, translator, and explorer. He was also the first person to climb Kebnekaise, the tallest mountain in Sweden, which he...
Date of birth:
- Jun 26, 1856
Date of death:
- Feb 1, 1944 (age 87 years)
Alexey Postnikov
Alexey V. Postnikov is an internationally known specialist on the History of Science, with particular emphasis on the geography and cartography of Russia and thise countries that have been under Russian inflence from the 17th through the 20th...
